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Sociology

Bachelor's degree in full-time form. The language of instruction is Czech.

The programme can be studied as a single subject or in combination with another programme.

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Submission deadline until midnight 28 February 2025.

What will you learn?

Sociology study program offers a scientifically grounded knowledge on how to understand, explain and interpret processes of social reality, including social structures, social institutions and social conflicts. It also draws students attention to various forms of life and self-understanding social actors are involved in. The study program assists students to develop their competence to comprehend and take advantage of basic sociological concepts and theories. With a strong methodological focus our study program encourage students to learn pivotal procedures of sociological research, data analysis and interpretation.

““All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts...”
William Shakespeare: As You Like It.”

Students after their graduation are able to participation in processing primary forms of analytical knowledge dealing with the workings of social institutions, social actions, and social relations. They are competent to participate in empirical sociological research procedures including statistical data analysis. While our students are able to think conceptually in thanks to their knowledge of both contemporary and classical sociological theories they can also put to use scholarly knowledge dealing with demographic, social and cultural trends in social stratification, social integration, families, gender relations, socialisation, and value patterns of current social reality.

Practical training

Practical training is a volunatry part of the Sociology Program Curriculum and it is framed as research practice. For the Gender Specialisation, practical training of 80 hours in a selected organization plus analytical report based on such experience are an integral and compulsory part of the curiculum.

Further information

For more info:

https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/organizational-structure/faculty-of-social-studies/231100-deptof-sociology

http://www.fss.muni.cz/about_us/workplace/kat_soc/soc_about?lang=en

http://soc.fss.muni.cz/?lang=en

Career opportunities

Sociology offers a professional development of those interpretive and analytical competences which can be utilised in various social fields, for instance in education, journalism, marketing and public relations, management of organisations, social works, integration of immigrants, state administration, conflict resolution, family counselling, urban development etc. Students after their graduation are able to participate in various projects as team members dealing with analytical and organisational tasks.

Admission requirements

No information available

Minimum score and numbers of accepted applicants in past years

Deadlines

1 Nov 2024 – 28 Feb 2025

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Study options

Single-subject studies

Students have a pre-defined list of required courses, which are supplemented with selective and elective courses. The student pays full attention to the single field of study chosen.

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Combined studies

In this type of studies, the students focus on the main degree programme (120 credits) supplemented with another, minor, programme (60 credits). The student enrols in the degree programme in which he/she majors. Both the programmes are stated in the university diploma. You will find possible combinations on the websites of individual degree programmes.​ An exception is programmes preparing students for teaching professions, where both fields of study are equal and the thesis may be written in any of them.

Recommended combinations
Other combinations

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

  • Sociology (major), full-time studies
    + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Sociology (major), full-time studies
    + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Sociology (major), full-time studies
    + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

  • Sociology (major), full-time studies
    + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Sociology as a minor degree programme

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Social Studies
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration
  • Economic Policy (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Sociology (minor)
  • Economics (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Sociology (minor)
  • Public Economics and Administration (major) – Faculty of Economics and Administration, full-time studies
    + Sociology (minor)
Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics
  • Informatics (major) – Faculty of Informatics, full-time studies
    + Sociology (minor)

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Courses – curriculum examples

An example of your study plan:

Single-subject studies

Combined studies

Recommended combinations
Other combinations

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Arts

Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Aesthetics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Auxiliary Historical Sciences (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Ethnology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Philosophy (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Bold – required courses
Normal – selective courses

Detailed information about courses in the study plan Sociology
Detailed information about courses in the study plan Philosophy
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Social Education and Counselling (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Study of Religions (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Theory and History of Film and Audiovisual Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Ancient History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Archival Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Art History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Baltic Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Catalan language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Chinese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Classical archaeology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Combined Art Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Computational Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Czech Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Dutch Language, Literature and Culture (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + English Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + French Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + General Linguistics (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + German language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Classical Greek language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Latin language and literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + History (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Information studies and librarianship (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Italian Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Japanese Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Modern Greek Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Museology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Musicology (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Pedagogy (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Polish Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Portuguese Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Russian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + South Slavonic and Balkan Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Spanish Language and Literature (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Theatre Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Theory of interactive media (minor) – Faculty of Arts
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Ukrainian Studies (minor) – Faculty of Arts

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Economics and Administration

Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Economics (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Public Economics and Administration (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Economic Policy (minor) – Faculty of Economics and Administration

Combinations with programmes from Faculty of Informatics

Sociology (major), full-time studies
 + Informatics (minor) – Faculty of Informatics

Follow-up studies

The graduate of this study program can continue (when meeting the admission criteria) in any graduate (M.A. level) study program at the faculty.

Study information

Provided by Faculty of Social Studies
Type of studies Bachelor's
Mode full-time Yes
combined No
distance No
Study options single-subject studies Yes
single-subject studies with specialization No
major/minor studies Yes
Standard length of studies 3 years
Language of instruction Czech

Do you have any questions?
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Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Navrátil, Ph.D.

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